The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

baggage-car playing with his dog, was thus
saved
BENJAMIN BELLENoER, six-year-old boy
Head and face bruised; an elder brother
and sister were killed.
ANDREW A. WHEELER of Fitchburg,
Mass.-Badly bruised and cut about the
face and body; not serious.
JOSEPH f. JACQUES of Fitchburg, Mass
Fracture on thigh, severe cuts and bruises
over head and face and different parts of
body.
FRANK NJ. PRATT, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association, Springfield,
Mass.-Injury to right foot and frost-bitten.
THE UNREcoGNIzED DEAD-suPPosED
MISSING PERSONS, ETC.
l.. p. JAMES of New Haven CT. missing.
DAVID DoDDs of North Hero, VT. reported
missing.
Miss BoRDEUR of Nashua, N. H.. body
not identified.
Mrs. EDWARD BLAIsDELL of Fitchburg,
Mass; missing.
THE wife of William Devino of Winooski;
body not identified
YOUNG man and woman named Bellen-
ger; bodies not identified.
A GENTLEMAN named Stewart of Newark
N. j.; supposed to have been with Edgar
Wilder.
A MAN named Bousciquet, his sister, wife
and two children of Attawaugan, Ct, are
missing.
REPORTED missing: Charles w. Hail. a
Boston drummer and George Bell of Bel
lows Falls.
c. c. DoNETT of Maverick National Bank,
Boston. missing; watch was found bear
ing the monogram " G. G. d."
FRIENDS think they recognize a body
found Sunday as that of Edgar Wilder,
formerly a carriage-maker of st. Adams.
The deceased was foTty-five years old and
leaves wife and four children at St. Al
bans.
THE remains of twenty persons were
burned beyond recognition and were taken
to w. f. & T.. j. Johnson. undertakers,
Hartford, in whose charge are placed the
bodies and effects for Identification by
friends
A WOMAN whose remains were taken from
the train had her face so badly burned that
it was impossible to identify her She had
on pair of dark blue corsets, which were
about the only article of her clothing not
consumed by the flames.
JAMES STONE of Burlington-The par
TALLY burned remains of a man were taken
from the wreck which were thought might
be those of Mr.. Stone, but DR.. Grinnel
could not identify them. He was the pro-
nard Post, G.. A. r., and a sufferer from q
wound received in the war. He leaves @
wife and four small children.
AMONG other persons reported missing
and supposed to have been passengers on the
train, are w. j. Haggerty and David Mari
of Providence, r. l., David Mcdonald OF
Lowell, Mass, A. f. Hazen of Hartford
(whom his brother, T. b. Riggs, says was
certainly on the train, ID. Brooks of Corn
wall, Ont, ard Peter or Fred Blais Of
Springfield, Mass
THE LATEST.
NEARLY all the dead show fractures of the
! skull and every case of wounded shows in
jury to head and face 1t is thought hardly
any person was killed who was not frs
stunned by the fall, and so suffered little
| from fire.
No more bodies were found Monday
The total number of dead is now put dowr
| at thirty-siX, but with the chance that il
may be more. Only thirteen of the bodie.
have been identified. The number of per
sons injured is put at thirty-siX, and it il
now believed that all will recover. Their,
were eleven persons on the train who wer,
uninjured. Probably more than half of tn,
! remains in the dead-house cannot be iden
tilted, because so badly charred. 1t is sal,
that the steel rails at the place of acciden
were made by the celebrated steel firm o
John Brown & Co. in England.
In the official investigation, begun by thu
4 railroad commission at four o'clock Monda,
/ afternoon, Governor Ormsbee and Judg
| Walker sat with the board by invitation
! Charles III. Pierce of White River Junction
engineer of the Inflated train, Frank II
Thresher of West Braintree fireman, Alfre,
! S. Robbins of Manchester, n. H., expires
messenger, and DR.. A. p. Grinnell of Bur
lington, who has had general charge of tn
| injured, testified before the commissioners
In the course of his testimony Enginee
Pierce said: " AS soon as my engine cam
to a standstill l jumped to the ground an,
ran to the rear of the cars and, looking off
saw-it being very light night-cars lynn
on the ice below. | took this all in at
glance and ran back to my engine, where
secured a coal-shovel and lantern. / thel
went down the side of the bank ON the mort
side of the bridge, instead of the same sid
the cars were on, because the other side wa
so steep. As it was | sat down on top of tn
embankment and slid the whole lengt
rapidly, passing under the bridge, an
Immediately reached the first passenger
car, which was about the middle of tn
river. 1t had not broken through the ic
and there was no water in it, but it evidentl
struck on the corner and squshed down t
about half its height; it lay upon its side
with the bottom toward the bridge. TIL
whole train lay in the same order upon tn
! ice as IL WAS Indut up DelOTt Liner
were left with me, of the railroad employe
who had not gone down with the wreck, IN
fireman, Frank Thrasher, Mr.. Cole, the bag
gage-master, the express messenger and tw
mail agents, whose names | don't know
The baggage-master and my fireman wen
down to the wreck with me. When W
reached it fire had started from the stove i
the rear of the first passenger-car and | di
not look farther than that car, but at one
did what | could to put out the fire b.
throwing on snow with my shovel This
at once saw to be useless, as the fire ha
already made so much Roadway, and we a
once began to help people out. First | too
out through the window two ladies an
two men, whose names | do not know.
heard number crying for help inside tn
car and, passing along toward the rear, | say
Mr.. Sturtevant, the conductor, crawln
upon his hands and knees with his clothin
and back all on fire. | broke the window
before him and shoveled in snow as h
passed along toward the front of the cal
trying to find place where he could &c
through the side of the car, which was on il
top. The windows were all INSTRUCTED b
end he found an unobstructed window
through which assisted him and laid hii
upon the clear ice under the bridge, while
went 10 assist others. The next one W
assisted was Mr.. Tewksbury, and after TIL
we helped two other men, My frema
crawled inside the car, removing the seal
and other distractions that pinned thei
down, and we lifted them out of the windo'
above. | first saw fire in the rear of I'll
first passenger-car, but / am confident I'll
ii ra nriuiuata1 in each IF tha four cars Th